Whether it is one load of sand or a whole house to brick up, our free service makes it easy to price bricklayers in Northern Cape. Your request goes to a bricklayer serving towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Bricklayers in Northern Cape
Need a bricklayer in Northern Cape? Give the wall lengths and heights, single or double skin, face brick or plaster brick, and whether you buy the materials. Say if it is a new house in Northern Cape, so the bricklayers know whether an NHBRC registered builder is involved.
Want to know more first? Our bricklayers guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Northern Cape
Bricklayers in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and on farms the team is often booked for a full job with lodging. Sand along the Orange and Vaal rivers near Upington and Douglas is used for bricks and plaster. Fire bricks are needed for farm boilers and mine kilns, and repairs to machines in remote towns usually mean posting the parts.
Northern Cape: the building, the weather and the yards
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
The requests we see from Northern Cape usually come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: a bricklayer for staff houses, stores, a pump house or a kraal wall
- Homeowners: a bricklayer for a boundary wall, a garage or an extra room at the back
- New brick-making businesses: a small block yard offering supply and lay with a bricklayer it trusts
Local tips for Northern Cape
Yards and suppliers serving Northern Cape mostly work from here: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. The requests that come up most: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. When you ask for quotes, ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Bricklayers usually suit house walls, boundary walls and extensions, made or supplied like this: laid to a string line with 10 mm joints. For farms and smallholdings, the biggest group here, that usually means a bricklayer for staff houses, stores, a pump house or a kraal wall. On the weather side: fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks; hard frost in the Karoo winter.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
We pass Northern Cape requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.